Welcome to Blackpast

Welcome to BlackPast

This 6,000 page reference center is dedicated to providing information to the general public on African American history and the history of more than one billion people of African ancestry around the world.  We invite you to explore and use all the resources of BlackPast.

Explore African American History

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George William Crockett Jr. (1909-1997)
Edwin Clarence Joseph Turpin Howard (J.A. Rogers, Africa's Gift to America)
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Edwin Clarence Joseph Turpin Howard (1846-1912)
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Lincoln Motion Picture Company
Dorothy Evans Holmes
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Dorothy Evans Holmes (1943- )

Explore Global African History

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Marcia A. Santacruz Palacios (1977–)
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(1973) H.W. E. Ntsanwisi, “Petty Apartheid”
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Operations Moses, Joshua, and Solomon (1984-1991)
Statue of the Three Queens in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands
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The Fireburn Labor Riot, United States Virgin Islands (1878)

Perspectives in African American and Global African History

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African Americans in Medicine in the Civil War Era
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The Best of Reclaiming Kin: Helpful Tips on Researching Your Roots
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U.S. Marshal Luke Moore at Ole Miss, 1962
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The Black Presence in Theater through the Centuries in the Historical Dictionary of African American Theater

Special Features & Resources

101 African American Firsts
Genealogy Resources
Major African American Office Holders since 1641
STEM Innovators

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